Odile jacob jan 2000 (3 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We rarely question the mechanI'ms and processes that enable us to perform such feats as uttering as many as 200 words a minute (more than one word every 400 milliseconds, and to process messages containing identical sound characteristics.How do we prepare what we re going to say How do we fI'd the right word How do we organise sound sequences to produce messages How do we decipher the sound sequences we hear How do we manage to decipher the meaning of sentences heard in difficult situations Why do we make mistakes and slips of the tongue What is the path taken by information through the auditory system and the brain The field of psycholinguistics has progressed greatly in the past few years, and both Juan Segui and Luc Ferrand have contributed to it. They describe the many complex operations that make up the simple yet extraordinary act of speech.Juan Segui is a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the director of the laboratory of experimental psychology at the University of Paris-V. Ludovic Ferrand is a researcher working in the laboratory of experimental psychology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book reflects upon and reviews current medical practice in the field of cardiovascular disease. Yet despite highly effective treatment diagnosis, medication, health maintenance cardiovascular disease remains the major killer in developed countries. The explanation is perhaps that it is a silent disease and its detection is often so invasive that the authors are led to ask the question, What's preferable: to be ill and not know it or anxiety-rieden and in good health Before the invention of the blood-pressure metre, cardiovascular diseases remained undetected and no one complained of them. The treatment of cardiovascular diseases is a victory for a certain form of mechanised medicine that relies totally on instruments; it is thus accurate but dehumanised. The information provided here offers doctors and patients the necessary information to reflect on this dilemma.Professor of Medicine Pierre Corvol teaches experimental medicine at the Collège de France and is a member of the Académie des Sciences. Nicolas Postel-Vinay is a cardiologist and the president of Imothep.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Observe us carefully and we won't disappoint you: we re a real tribe, with clans, totems and rituals, a member of the French National Assembly told author Marc Abélès. The members are at the heart of a universe which contributes to maintain the idea of a shared identity'.Marc Abélès studies France's National Assembly through the eyes of an anthropologist. He has made use of an acute sense of observation as well as of a variety of approaches interviews, personal accounts, previously unpublished anecdotes, profiles of people in the news and takes a fresh look at the public service sector. Marc Abélès is a member of the Social Anthropology Laboratory at the Collège de France and the author of Jours Tranquilles en 89, La Vie Quotidienne au Parlement Européen, Anthropologie de l Etat and Anthropologie du Politique.…